The Progress., 1887-12-03
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
WHAT is known as the llrive-well patent
was ON the 14th declared invalid by the
Supreme Court of the United States.
JAMES E. QUINN, of District Assembly 40,
Knights of Labor, of New York, was one of
the many who petitioned Governor Oglesby
in behalf Of the Chicago Anarchists. He
said on the 14th that the Governor told him
that for every petition for mercy for the
condemned men he could produce hun
dreds from law-abiding citizens all over the
country requesting him not to interfere
with the sentence.
A FIRE on the 18th In Brooklyn, N. Y,
destroyed the Prospect Park & Coney Island
railway station, the stables Of the Wander
bilt avenue horse-car line, 157 horses, a
quantity of feed, rolling stock, etc., valued
at 100000
In the Joliet peniteutiary schwab and
Fielden, the Anarchists, were on the 18th
assigned to work, the latter in the marble
shop and Schwab in the bakery, where he
will assist IN kneeding dough
AT a meeting in Chicago on the 14th of
ministers OF all denominations Francis Mur-
ply was requested to commence winter
,osraIAoo III CllCdSO.
ADv1CEs OF the 18th say that as a result Of
the drought in the Miami valley, in Ohio
epldemics of diphtheria and fevers prevail,
resulting in many deaths The schools were
closed at LeWisburg, and children were for
hidden to appe1r upon the streets
I. A. DHLARD, one Of the Oldest citizens
OF Gr1nneu County, Ga, growing Jealous Of
the wife who had borne him eleven chill
dren, killed her on the 14th with an axe.
JOHN H. WEBER, an employe of the
Northern Pacific Express Company at st.
Paul, disappeared on the 18th, taking with
him large amount of money that had
been expressed to Western points
The execution Of the Chicago Anarchists
has so thoroughly disgusted Mr. George
Francis Train that he declared on the 18th
that ne would leave the country, never to
return
a 8. HATCH, prominent "bear" operator
on the New York Stock Exchange, suspend
ed on the l4th. 1t was thought his liabili-
ties would amount to about 81, 900 900.
SOPHIA YAGER, a young woman, pleaded
guilty of horse-stealing at Madison, Wis, on
the 18th, and was sentenced to two years
imprisonment
A FIRE on the 18th destroyed cotton
compress at Little Rock, Ark, causing a
loss of $3OO,OOO.
- The Bank of Dakin, Kan, closed it's doors
on the 14th and made an assignment.
ETHAN LEAK, a farmer who resided near
Jamestown, Ind, accidentally discharged a
revolver on the 14th and seriously wounded
his wife. Thinking he had killed her he
blew his own brains out
COTTON compress at Greenville, Tex.
was destroyed by fire on the 14th, causing
loss of $25O.OOO
In tot tIo f,l, ~, I.c
of yellow fever at Tampa, Fla, and is
deaths
AN attempt on the 14th to wreck pas
senger train near Wichita, Kan, by p1ling
ties on the track, was discovered by the en-
g1neer In time to avert the disaster
-, .IHE Rome, WatertoWn & Ogdensburg rail
road on the 18th commenced heating it's
cars with steam from the engine, abolishing
stoves altogether:
THE Evangelical Alliance of Cincinnati,
composed of ministers of nearly all the
churches of that city, at meeting on the
14th deplored the Impending perils of
anarchism, socialism, uluramontanis1n, inf
deity, Sabbath and intemper-
ance," and promised their assistance in
combining the patriotism and Christianity
OF the country against the dangers from
such sources which threatened the United
States
THE sixth annual meeting of. the Baptist
National congress began it's sessions at In
dianapOlis, Ind, on the 18th
On the 10Th two Mormon elders who
We're striving to make converts to- their
faith were driven out of Jefferson County,
Ala, by fifty armed men,
LEE MosIER was hanged on the 10Th at
Wichita, Kan, for the murder of Hugh 3.
Lawler, in the Indian Territory, in October,
1856 1t was the first judicial hanging in
the State in eighteen years.
lIEUTENANT-GENERAL p. II. SHERIDAN, in
his annual report on the 18th, says that,
according to the last consolidated returns
the army consists of 3 200 officers and "a.
236 men.
COMMODORE T. D. NELSON said on the 18th
that the outlook for Americas navy was
very bright, and asked for authority to re-
pair the historic sloop- of-war Hartford at
a cost of $175, 600
IHE shoe manufacturers Of the country
met in New York on the 10Th and formed q
permanent association for the purpose OF
making an etfectual resistance in case un-
just demands are made upon them by their
employees
CHARLES CAvANAN died in New York on the
18th of hydrophobia He was bitten by a
small dog last October.
AT meeting of representative railroad
men in New YorS on the 18th committee
was appointed to pressn at future gath
ering general scheme for the heating of
cars by steam. -
Two MIGRANTS who recently attempted
to assault two women in the southern por-
tion of Pike County, Mo-, we're captured on
the 10Th and hanged to trees.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging on the
18th throughout the western counties of
Tennessee and the eastern counties of Ar
kansas. Great damage had been DONE
EIGHT Crow Indians who took part in the
late uprising were on the 18th incarcerated
at Fort Smelling
A SENSATION was caused on the 18th at the
poor farm near Hudson, Wis, by the dis
covery there of genuine leper in the per-
son OF Martin Donaldson, who came from
Ceylon few years ago.
RANDOLPH GRAYDEN, aged nine years, of
Taylor Center, Mich, shot and killed his lit
tie sister on the 18th while playing with a
/. revolver.
The grand jury in New York City on the
10th indicted for conspiracy the members
of the Shoemakers' Assembly, Knights OF
Labor, for demanding and securing the dis